Lionel St. EloiBorn 1950 in Port-au-Prince. St. Eloi began painting in1972, at which time he joined the Centre dArt. In the 1990s he shifted his attention to sculpture, composed of aluminum pans and other found materials. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Musée dArt Haitien, Ramapo College (NJ) and the New Orleans Museum of Art. It is published in Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988), Haiti: Actualities and Belief (Roche, 1990), and Island on Fire (Demme, 1997).

Lionel St. Eloi. (photograph by Nancy Josephson. Reproduced with permission)